Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 693

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693.

“Is everyone ready?”

Looking at Dweno’s workshop visible in the distance, Artion spoke with a serious expression.

“Our goal is to destroy the Legion’s Records as quickly as possible. As such, we need to find the shortest route as soon as we enter the Legion’s World.”

At those words, Luke raised his hand.

“Do you have a question? Luke.”

“How do we find the Legion’s Records within the Legion’s World?”

“When you enter the Heroes’ World through the Hero’s Dungeon core, there will be a place where noticeable spatial distortion occurs. The Legion’s World shouldn’t be much different.”

Everyone nodded at Artion’s explanation.

“Cal, please take command.”

“Yes.”

“Now then, let’s depart…”

“What are you all doing here?”

“Ah, Dweno.”

Artion turned around at the voice from behind and bowed his head respectfully.

And with Dweno’s appearance, Chelsea and Cal’s faces hardened stiffly.

“The city is in danger right now. You all need to lend your strength.”

Looking at Dweno who wore an apologetic expression, Driana stepped forward and spoke.

“Yes! That’s why we’re trying to destroy the barrier so we can request external support!”

“Oh? Is that so?”

Dweno exclaimed in admiration and patted Driana’s head.

“Hey, what do we do?”

When Cal quietly asked, Chelsea bit her lips tightly.

Dweno has memories from when they previously conquered the Heroes’ World.

That’s why he intentionally hid the entrance that leads to the Legion’s World.

To show the future to the people of Isvaldi.

Chelsea and Cal hadn’t told the others about this fact.

Because it was connected to Leo’s secret, they couldn’t speak carelessly about it.

They had only informed them that there was an entrance to the Legion’s World in the basement of Dweno’s workshop.

But now Dweno had appeared.

Dweno knows.

The moment they cross over to the Legion’s World.

The time of the Isvaldi people will end.

‘Dweno will try to stop us.’

It was when Chelsea was breaking out in cold sweat.

Tap-!

Cal lightly tapped Chelsea’s arm.

Chelsea’s face hardened as she looked up at Cal.

Cal pointed toward Dweno with a small chin gesture.

‘…Right. That’s the only way.’

Chelsea bit her lips tightly.

The moment she made up her mind.

Whoosh-!

Chelsea cast wind magic with her specialty high-speed incantation.

The sudden gust of wind struck Dweno.

“Chelsea! What are you doing…!”

“Run to the workshop!”

Chelsea shouted urgently.

At the same time, she manipulated the wind to send her party members flying toward the workshop.

Everyone was startled by the sudden situation, but soon entrusted themselves to Chelsea’s wind.

It was a very sudden impulsive action, but they followed Chelsea’s intention for now.

It was because of their trust in their companion.

“What, what! What are you doing?!”

When Driana asked angrily, Cal explained the situation.

“Dweno has memories from when we conquered this place before!”

“What?”

Driana’s eyes widened greatly.

“He knows that the people of Isvaldi will disappear if we destroy the Legion’s Records! That’s why he deliberately hid the existence of the entrance even though he knew about it!”

At those words, all the party members’ eyes widened.

Iliana stammered as she spoke.

“That, that means…”

“Right.”

Cal broke out in cold sweat as he looked back.

There, Dweno, who had been blown away by Chelsea’s magic, was getting up.

“It means Dweno will stand in our way.”

“…Fighting the Giant King would be a thousand times better.”

Iliana made a tearful expression.

***

Dawn night sky.

Dweno, who had been knocked away by Chelsea’s magic, got up.

“Hmm.”

Tap tap- He brushed off the dust on his body while watching Chelsea running away in the distance.

“Excellent high-speed incantation.”

He heard she was still young.

Yet to memorize magic of this level in an instant.

‘When she grows up, she might be comparable to Luna in high-speed incantation alone. The future is promising.’

Having thought that far, Dweno smiled bitterly.

‘The future.’

What he was doing might be making their future uncertain.

‘It’s a foolish thing to do.’

But it couldn’t be helped.

The people of Isvaldi.

They were as precious to Dweno as the Great Hero.

In his childhood.

He had run away from home to perfectly control the golden flames that were like a curse.

The place that accepted such a Dweno was Isvaldi.

His people whom he ultimately failed to protect.

‘After death, the moment has come to resolve this lingering attachment.’

He doesn’t wish for much.

He just wants to show them the sun.

‘Let’s trust Kail.’

A true hero incomparable to someone like himself.

If it’s Kail, he will defeat Gias.

Just like how he never gave up and defeated Erebos.

Dweno bent his knees.

At that moment.

“He’s coming!”

With Cal’s shout, Dweno rushed forward at tremendous speed.

Crackle-!

Then Duran stepped forward.

Duran’s golden eyes flashed as he swung his sword with both hands.

The lightning blade drove away the darkness.

Flash!

At the same time, Eliza summoned Pegasus.

The golden lightning swirling around was absorbed into Eliza’s Pegasus.

The moment Dweno saw this and tried to target the two.

Flash-!

Iliana appeared before Dweno in a burst of light.

Following her, Luke, Aina, and Havedon thrust their swords from behind Iliana.

‘Impressive.’

Dweno was amazed.

When they first met.

They couldn’t properly attack him.

But now it’s different.

They’re giving their all to stop him.

“Excellent.”

Dweno praised the hero candidates’ determination.

However…

“Huh?! You’re not dodging?!”

Iliana was momentarily flustered seeing Dweno who didn’t seem to have any intention of dodging or blocking her sword strike.

Even so, the sword energy in her blade didn’t waver.

Clang clang clang-!

Four swords struck Dweno’s body.

The swords bounced off.

“Dodge? Why should I?”

Dweno tilted his head slightly and lightly tapped below Iliana’s neck with his fingertip.

Thud-!

“Guh?!”

Leaving Iliana who fell backward behind him, Dweno leisurely charged toward the lightning of Eliza and Duran covering him.

Crackle crackle crackle!

Intense lightning struck Dweno.

But even so, Dweno didn’t slow down.

“What?!”

Everyone was shocked.

Dweno easily overtook Ar’s party and stood in front of the workshop with a thud.

“Hmm. That hurt.”

Dweno rubbed his shoulder and cracked his neck.

“That’s a lie! That’s 100% a lie!”

“Senior Iliana, are you okay?”

“Huh, what?”

At Aina’s question, Iliana looked confused as she felt around her body.

Nothing hurt at all.

“It would be troublesome if I hurt young friends.”

Dweno crossed his arms and smiled.

“Your attacks aren’t much of a threat anyway.”

“Grr!”

Duran made a frustrated expression.

Even if those words were true, the frustration was unavoidable.

“So go back now.”

“What if we refuse?”

At Chelsea’s question, Dweno smiled broadly.

“I plan to render you all unable to fight.”

“But you said you wouldn’t hurt us earlier.”

“There are various ways to render someone unable to fight without injury. For example.”

Dweno’s gaze turned to Cal.

The moment Cal flinched.

Whoosh-!

Thud-!

At that moment.

A fist flew toward Cal’s face.

Artion, who swung his fist in front of Cal’s nose, broke out in cold sweat.

Dweno had swung his fist and sent an air blast toward Cal’s head.

He wouldn’t die or get hurt, but if it had hit his face, he would have fainted immediately.

“Waaaah! Professor! Thank you!”

At Cal’s words, Artion said.

“Everyone fight with the resolve to kill Dweno, you rookies! The opponent is a great hero who was called the strongest shield before being called the Divine Blacksmith! Form ranks!”

Artion clenched his fist and stepped forward.

Cal approached Driana.

“Driana! Get ready to fight.”

“I, I still don’t understand! There’s no way Dweno would ignore the world’s danger… Why? How come?”

Driana couldn’t pull herself together.

Looking at such Driana, Cal said.

“Dweno is human too. He’s an incredibly noble person, but… he’s not a perfect being.”

“…!”

“It wouldn’t be strange if there’s something as precious as the world, right?”

At Cal’s words, Driana bit her lip.

Then she made a resolute expression and stepped to the very front.

“You can never break through me. So I recommend giving up.”

When Dweno spoke calmly, Chelsea laughed.

“Unfortunately, our leader is far from the type to give up.”

“…You taught him well.”

Dweno closed his eyes.

“Then I have no choice but to make you give up on your own.”

*

The legion’s advance continued without rest.

A full-scale siege battle had begun.

Ballistae on the city walls fired endlessly, bringing down demons and monsters that got close to the walls.

Mages cast spells.

Isvaldi’s warriors were fighting valiantly.

‘Why! Why isn’t Dweno here!’

Gias trembled seeing this sight.

‘Could it be… he’s not on this battlefield? Did he run away?’

That’s impossible.

Dweno is a warrior who never breaks.

Gias knew Dweno better than anyone.

Dweno would never run away.

But no matter how he looked at it, he couldn’t shake the thought that Dweno wasn’t on the battlefield in this situation.

That’s when it happened.

Rumble rumble rumble-!

One side of the city wall collapsed.

The legion’s assault concentrated on that location.

The mages of Isvaldi urgently began repairing the city wall.

‘Yes! In a crisis like this, he won’t be able to stay hidden any longer!’

Dweno was definitely hiding somewhere.

It would surely be proven now that his prediction wasn’t wrong.

But….

Only Leo was active on the battlefield.

Dweno’s figure was still nowhere to be seen.

Leo single-handedly blocked the surging legion.

In the meantime, the city wall was barely restored.

The moment he saw that.

“Grwaaaaaaaaaah!”

Gias let out a roar and began charging.

As the Giant King began to move, as if an earthquake had struck.

The ground throughout the surrounding area began to shake.

“Tch.”

Leo clicked his tongue at the sight.

“Why is he moving now?”

When Arga asked with a panicked face, Leo said calmly.

“That guy’s a coward.”

An excessively cautious personality.

“Well, thanks to his misunderstanding, I fought comfortably… but that’s over now.”

Leo stepped forward.

“Sh-should I help?”

Leo shook his head at Ar’s question.

“It’s still too early for you.”

“You can win alone, right? Since you’re Kail! Right?!”

“It seems difficult.”

Leo looked down at his palm.

Since entering the Legion’s World, his divine power hadn’t manifested.

Since the Dungeon of the Legion itself was Erebos’s domain, which could be called the natural enemy of divine power, he couldn’t perform miracles.

“Ahhh! Then why are you so carefree!”

As Arga tore at his hair, Leo smiled faintly.

“He’ll come.”

“What?”

“Dweno will come.”

It was faith.

Faith in someone he had entrusted his life to for many years.

“Definitely.”

Leaving those words, Leo charged toward Gias.

“Surviving hero Kaiiiil! Where is Dweno!”

Gias roared and raised his massive greatsword.

Seeing this, Leo gripped Posteritas and sneered.

“He’s hiding to cut off your neck.”

“Where do you speak such lies!”

The small sword filled with gray aura and the mountain-sized greatsword filled with dark magic power collided.

-!

The demons nearby turned to dust and disappeared.

Even among the demons and mabeasts in the distance, many burst and died.

“The sound…?”

Despite the tremendous spectacle unfolding before her eyes, no sound could be heard.

Ar, who had a panicked expression, suddenly realized her own voice sounded muffled.

Drip!

“Huh, what?”

Feeling dampness near her ear, she unconsciously brought her hand to it.

Something sticky came off.

Blood was flowing from her ear.

‘What kind of… incredibly brutal fight is this!’

Arga’s eyes widened.

This was the battle between a Great Hero and a Legion Commander.

“Ugh! When will Dweno come? Does it take long to find weapons?”

Arga stamped his feet.

Then Ennitha, who had been commanding the battlefield, clenched her fist.

“Raden.”

“Yes! Ennitha!”

“Take command for a moment.”

“Yes? Where are you going…?”

“That damn dwarf! I’m going to punch him in the face and drag him here!”

Gritting her teeth, Ennitha headed toward Dweno’s Workshop.

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